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Topic: New England eyes potentially
record-setting blizzard |
New England eyes potentially
record-setting blizzard
Reuters, by Scott Malone
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Posted By:NorthernDog, 2/7/2013 3:24:10 PM
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| BOSTON - New England braced on Thursday for a possibly record-setting winter storm, with forecasts of up to two feet of snow prompting local officials to urge residents to prepare. Forecasters warned the snow would begin lightly on Friday morning but ramp up to blizzard conditions by afternoon, leading Boston Mayor Thomas Menino to order the city´s schools closed Friday. He asked businesses to consider allowing staff to stay home. "We are hardy New Englanders, let me tell you, and used to these types of storms. But I also want to remind everyone to use common sense
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
John c, 2/7/2013 3:47:21 PM (No. 9164251)
Don´t know how many new englanders from Mexico and elsewhere have been through such a storm. Good luck to them and the Red Sox.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 2/7/2013 4:02:10 PM (No. 9164281)
Let´s hope it won´t be as bad as they say because of no heat and broken pipes. Hoping the elderly and frail will go to shelters before it hits. This will be a huge expense on top of Sandy.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
someshoes, 2/7/2013 4:05:44 PM (No. 9164291)
Get the checkbooks ready America. NY, Mass. and NJ will be "expecting" your help soon. That $50 billion you committed last month is long gone.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
SourKraut, 2/7/2013 4:23:42 PM (No. 9164327)
Good grief, you´d think it has never snowed in the NE before, to hear the weather forecasters.
Hey, listen up...we get this stuff all the time in fly-over country, and we dig out and get on with life.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Halfvast Conspirator, 2/7/2013 4:28:12 PM (No. 9164334)
One hopes Mumbles learned his lesson about snow removal.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
sinic, 2/7/2013 4:43:45 PM (No. 9164359)
I ran communications for a section of Mass DPW during the Blizzard of ´78...the southeastern portion of the state was totally shut down for days. When I got home, the snow drifts were up to the top of the garage. If this baby even approaches the magnitude of that one, they´re in for a rough week ahead. I must say though, for the most part, New England drivers can handle bad weather pretty well...but storms like ´78 are "bad weather" multiplied by 10. I´m glad we´re in South Carolina now...I don´t miss that stuff one bit.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Susannah, 2/7/2013 4:52:55 PM (No. 9164378)
I remember that one well, #6. Northwest of Boston we had over three feet of snow, but a day after it stopped, we were pretty much up and running. (I do recall my mother and me shoveling the driveway THREE times in two hours the afternoon it started just so my father could get in after work.) The south shore was terribly hard hit with the tides in addition to the snow.
There are fleets of plows, sanders, and salters ready to go, and the power companies are supposed to be prepared.
If this is a collision of two storms the way sandy was, the New England coast will be bludgeoned. But...we´re used to it. I hope no lives are lost.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
gruntled, 2/7/2013 7:56:07 PM (No. 9164614)
EEK! GLOBULL WARMING! GLOBULL WARMING! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!
IT´S ALL BUSHES FAULT!!!!
(hee hee. What fun!)
Grunt sends.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
mikkins2, 2/7/2013 8:44:24 PM (No. 9164657)
Gas for the snow blower and oil in the tank. Food in the cupboards and Cumbies a block away.
I live in Maine.
Its snows here.
Yawn.....
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